[House  of  RErREsENTATiVEs.] 

HOUSE  OF  BEPRESENTATIVFS,  December  16, 1864.-Order- 
ed  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Turner  of  North  Carolina.] 


^    RESOLUTION 

Tendering  negotiations  for  peace  and  a  mitigation  of  the 
horrors  o(  the  war. 

1  R( solved.   That  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  by 

2  and  with  tlie  advice  and  consent  of  the  b'enate  be,  and  he  is  hcre- 

3  by  requested,  to  appoint  thirteen  commissioners,  one  from  each  of 

4  the  Confederate  States,  to  tender  to  the  government  of  the 

5  United  States,  a  conference  for  negotiating  an  honorable  peace; 

6  and  failing  in  thip,  the  commissioners  beinptiucted  to  use  all 

7  proper   efforts  to  obtain  an  immediate  exchange  of  prisoners; 

8  and  if  possible,  to  come  to  such  understanding  with  the  enemy 

9  regarding  the  future  conduct  of  tlie  war  as  maj  tend,  in  some 
10    degree,  to  mitigate  its  horrors  and  atrocities. 


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